A noted expert on U.S.-Mexico border issues such as immigration and drug trafficking, journalist Alfredo Corchado (right) discusses his recent book “Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness” Monday at Central Library. El Paso author Benjamin Alire Saenz, who won this year's prestigious PEN/Faulkner award for his book “Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club,” will moderate. As bureau chief in Mexico City for the Dallas Morning News, Corchado received death threats for his reporting on police corruption and the cartels.